Carel Struycken Quotes

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.

People thought I looked weird, that I talked weird.

I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn't look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.

I'm not a cool girl. I wish I was.

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?